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Art reflects the lived experiences of its creators, and the tumultuous year since the Ferguson protests has foregrounded an intensely local but also national conversation on racial injustice, regressive socio-economic policies and discriminatory laws. Two artists share their work and ideas on movement building.

Rebecca Ginsburg, co-founder of the Education Justice Project at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, is interviewed by Maggie Garb, a professor of history and instructor in WashU's Prison Education Program at Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific, Mo. Ginsburg's program serves incarcerated men at Danville Correctional Center in Danville, Ill.

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Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies Colin Burnett unpacks the video teaser for November 2015's SPECTRE, the latest James Bond thriller, and finds a protagonist with a sense of his (and the book and film franchise's) own history.

Historian Corinna Treitel, a Faculty Fellow in the Center for the Humanities, traces the trajectory of the practice of "natural eating" from its origins as a 19th-century German countercultural movement to a $72 billion global industry — including its elevation as the Third Reich's preferred diet.

Philosophy professor John Doris blogs about his new book, Talking to Ourselves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency, which may leave you wondering just how much of your decision making is the result of your own calculation and how much is influenced by your "subversive unconscious."

Sergio Pitol (above) has had a powerhouse career — winning two major Spanish-language literary awards and icon status in Mexico. But his work, including almost two dozen novels, memoirs and short-story collections, has only recently become available in English. Literary scholar and humanities center Faculty Fellow Ignacio Sánchez Prado attempts to explain why.

Wilmetta Tolivier-Diallo reflects on the Washington University African Film Festival as it launches its 10th year on Thursday, March 27 (through Sunday, March 29). She recounts walking storefront to storefront to hang posters in the first year, questions what an "authentic" African film is, and describes changes in the African film industry itself.

In film and literature, Holocaust perpetrators used to be portrayed as easily repudiated monsters and sadists. In her new book project, humanities center Faculty Fellow Erin McGlothlin takes on the recent wave of humanizing depictions, such as in the film Shoah, that compel their audiences to acknowledge their complicated psychologies.